On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01 PM, website reader <[email protected]>wrote:
> While I understand that solid state drives considerably speed things > up on the motherboard, others have discouraged me from purchasing > such, stating that the NAND technology only permits a limited number > of writes. > > My applications are number theory processing and image fft analysis, > so will my system eventually fall victim to the limited write cycles > of the NAND solid state drives? I do hammer files continuously > sometimes. > > Does anyone have some experience with ssd? > > The newer drives (particularly Intel and OCZ) look very promising... but > ??? > > - Randall > There is truth to this, however modern drives have found solutions to this problem. It's really a small concern any more. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
